Robert Tabor retains strong memories of a stunning blond actress who, while driving to New York City, got stuck in a snowstorm, sought shelter in Stonington and was taken in by Tabor’s uncle, a shy and quiet mailman known for nursing stray animals back to health.
The actress was Dorothy Comingore, who had had a prominent role as Susan Alexander Kane, the mistress and then wife of Charles Foster Kane in one of the most acclaimed movies of all time, Citizen Kane. Critics raved about her performance. The mailman was John Crowe, who ran a small variety store called The Crowe’s Nest in Lords Point, a summer colony in Stonington.
According to Tabor and others who knew this most unlikely couple, they got married and lived happily ever after, enjoying their dogs and cats together. She had landed far away from Los Angeles but she lived out a kind of a Hollywood ending. Tabor says, “She told me she relished her life here.
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